The Photographer’s Black and White Handbook: Making and Processing Stunning Digital Black and White Photos

The Photographer’s Black & White Handbook is the complete guide to making and processing stunning black and white photos within the digital era. You’ll find inspiration, ideas, techniques, and tools to make use of to your black and white photography, in conjunction with a soup-to-nuts workflow to take you from black and white pre-visualization through capture and post-production. Along the best way you’ll lean over Harold’s shoulder as he travels to exciting photo destinations and creates stunning black and white imagery, explaining his creative and technical processes as he goes.

This definitive guide includes:
■ Tips on how to see in black and white
■ Pre-visualization in digital photography
■ Understanding black and white composition
■ Tips on how to create your own black and white workflow
■ Black and white in ACR, Lightroom, and Photoshop
■ The usage of black and white plug-ins including Nik Silver Efex Pro and Topaz B&W Effects
■ Extending tonal range with multi-RAW processing and monochromatic HDR ■ Post-production techniques for working with dynamic range
■ Creative black and white special effects
■ Learn the way to tone, tint, colorize, solarize, and simulate IR
■ Work with LAB to create unique black and white effects ■ Great tools for unleashing your photographic imagination
■ Beautiful photographs by Harold Davis chosen to inspire and guide you